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Roger Warin
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 Posted: Feb 12, 2013 04:53 Post subject: Fluorite features |
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Belgian fluorites are beautiful, not so much in form, but their size, colors and transparency are amazing.
Here is a first example, the Mercedes star (placed upside down).
Roger.
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Seilles - Belgium
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Seilles - Belgium
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2013 15:19 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features |
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Amazing colors
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Scott LaBorde
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2013 09:24 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features |
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I recovered these from the Glendon Pyrophyllite mine -- Standard Mineral Company.
I enjoy the modified cubes.
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Glendon Pyrophyllite mine, Moore Co., NC, USA
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Glendon Pyrophyllite mine, Moore Co., NC, USA
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2013 17:14 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features and gems |
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Belgian fluorites from Seilles are sometimes amazing. Look here.
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Bob Jackson
Joined: 22 Mar 2011
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Location: Seattle
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2013 19:07 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features |
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New fluorite from Arizona, displayed at Tucson show.
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La Fluorita Dulcita prospect, Cochise Co, Arizona, USA
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Matt_Zukowski
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2013 21:43 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features |
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| Interesting habit. Do you think this is an octahedron modified by the trisoctahedron?
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Bob Jackson
Joined: 22 Mar 2011
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Location: Seattle
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2013 21:53 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features |
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| Habit is called ochsenauge, means 'ox-eye' in german. I haven't seen a good explanation of the formation, but the octohedrons grow curved, don't think a trisoctohedron is involved.
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Jordi Fabre
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Location: Barcelona
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| Posted: Mar 17, 2013 06:17 Post subject: Re: Fluorite features |
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One example of the original "Ochsenauge"
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Fluorite (Ochsenauge)
Tagebau Nord, Schönbrunn/Vogtland, Germany
Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.9 × 1.9 cm.
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm.
Fluorescent long & short UV
Former Jan Buma Collection. Number 011058 |
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